"When you are an undocumented immigrant, celebrating the Fourth of July is to resist being defined by fear and panic." ...

Kenneth Griffin, the billionaire art collector and hedge fund founder, purchased the document that abolished slavery, as well ...

Griffin paid a record $13.7M for the 13th Amendment and $4.4 million for the Emancipation Proclamation. Both documents were ...

Did you know Tennessee has two holidays celebrating Emancipation from slavery? Juneteenth, the federal holiday, and August 8.

Originally issued by Lincoln during the Civil War in 1863, the proclamation declared enslaved people in the Confederate ...

Juneteenth is a sacred celebration of the end of slavery. But true economic justice is the unfinished business of civil ...

Billionaire Ken Griffin just broke the auction sales record for any document signed by President Abraham Lincoln. The Citadel ...

A community group is set to bring together a series of speakers to discuss the subject of emancipation this month. Community ...

On this 176th anniversary of the emancipation of all the enslaved people in the Virgin Islands, The Daily News is reprinting an excerpt of the speech given by ...

America will celebrate Emancipation Day, also known as Juneteenth on June 19 – commemorating the end of slavery in our country – but the nation's most recently recognized national holiday has ...

We feature a special broadcast marking the Juneteenth federal holiday that commemorates the day in 1865 when enslaved people ...

Juneteenth 2025 is this week. Here's what to know about the federal holiday, why it's celebrated and its origins.